Sustainable Lifestyle Events in Montreal, Quebec

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Urban Homestead Montreal offers inspiring and fun presentations and hands-on workshops throughout the city of Montreal. Our events are for all ages and we can travel to your site for our events. Topics range from sustainability (gardening, ecological lifestyle) to food (transformation, fermentation) to creative fun (terrariums and crafts.)

Fees for groups:

$10 – $50 per participant, depending on topic, length of event, number of participants and materials required.

FULL EVENT DESCRIPTIONS

Plant-based Cheesemaking

Whether you`re lactose intolerant, vegan or a foodie, this is an empowering opportunity to learn how to get started making fresh and fermented plant-based cheeses at home.

Join us as we explore a variety of animal by-product-free cheeses, most gluten-free, which can be used for a variety of culinary purposes. We will demonstrate how to prepare various cheeses, using bases of nuts, seeds, beans and more to create spreadable, meltable, creamy and delicious alternatives to conventional cheese.

Design Your Ultimate Balcony Garden

Learn all about vertical gardening and optimizing your small balcony space for a productive garden! Empower yourself with new skills to make your ultimate accessible balcony garden.

We`ll explore making the most of small outdoor growing spaces with various do-it-yourself vertical growing systems, with a focus on using cheap and recycled materials.

Some topics we’ll be discussing:

-Plant varieties for containers

-Self Watering containers

-Upside down planters

-Local resources for learning and materials

-Tips for growing on a balcony in Montreal

-How to design your garden

-Season extension

-Dealing with pests and the elements (Stopping Squirrels!)

Brew Your Own Kombucha!

Love kombucha but want to save money by brewing your own homebrew? Curious about how to make custom blends using best practices? Join us for a hands-on workshop where you`ll build your own starter kit. Includes tasting several flavour profiles!Fermenting is a great way of preserving foods, increasing their nutritional value, adding probiotics to your diet and getting your taste buds going! Fermented foods are not only rich in various probiotics but also have beneficial enzymes that help your heal your gut and assist digestion. Plus, transforming food is empowering and fun!

FOOD: Growing, Transforming and Finding Nourishment Year-roundIt is obvious that it is more important than ever to be aware of our food. In this workshop, we discuss optimizing interaction with the local food cycle as well as tips and tricks to reduce waste at each stage, from production to transformation. We`ll share ideas for easy projects of interior and exterior food cultivation as well as how to find ethical and affordable ingredients in Montreal. We will also talk about ways to reduce food waste at home with useful life hacks! Come learn with us!

Make Your Own Macrame Hanging Planter

Hanging planters are the ideal solution for increasing growing space in your apartment window.After this workshop, you will know how to transform any pot or jar into a hanging planter using string and your imagination!You can choose between a simple knot design, or learn more advanced macrame knots to bring your planter to the next level.

Reducing Food Waste – Lifestyle tips!

Did you know that roughly 40% of the food we produce in North America is wasted? We will discuss how making small shifts in how you shop, prepare, and store food can help you save money and eat well. We’ll learn tips on how we can keep the valuable resources we use to produce and distribute food from going to waste. Everyone welcome.

TOPICS:

-Scraps into Stock

-Food Storage Tips

-Dumpster Diving

-Re-growing from Scraps

-Using Leftovers

-Meal Planning

-Communal Meals

-Composting

Make Your Own Terrariums!

(Practical presentation only or with hands-on activity)

Terrariums are a popular new way to grow plants in a mini eco-system! These cute bowl growing beds are a great addition to your home, or make a unique gift!

During this workshops we will outline:

-Types of Terrariums

-What supplies and tools are needed

-Locations to buy your materials

-Best practices for keeping your terrarium environment healthy

-How to make a hanging terrarium

Each particpant will be provided with all the materials to build their own glass terrarium to take home or give as a gift. We will be creating the terrariums together during the workshop.

Air Plant Terrariums Workshop

(Practical presentation only or with hands-on activity)

Terrariums are a popular new way to grow plants in a mini eco-system! These cute bowl growing beds are a great addition to your home, or make a unique gift!

During this workshops we will outline:

-What supplies and tools are needed

-Locations to buy your materials

-Best practices for keeping your terrarium environment healthy

Each particpant will be provided with all the materials to build their own bowl terrarium to take home or give as a gift. We will be creating the terrariums together during the workshop.